不要以为你在Facebook上与之交谈的每个人都是真实的：整个市场都在**假账户。

charliewarzel为Buzzfeed撰稿，通过实际购买一个假账户来调查此事。这是出人意料的简单。

…it took me just a few clicks and one painless $13 bitcoin transaction on a Russian website to buy Audrey Mitchell and her believably c***tructed digital footprint. After the transaction, an emailed link offered up a downloadable file containing the unique phone number Audrey’s account was registered under, a password, and a registered birthdate — all the necessary credentials to gain access to the account.

Within 30 minutes I was behind the wheel of Audrey’s page, liking pictures, posting status updates, and warding off creepy messages. There was little to suggest that the page was inauthentic — or that its operator was a 30-year-old journalist in Montana.

文章接着概述了整个假账市场，这比我想象的要容易得多。

处理这些帐目令人沮丧。我和其中一些人谈过，这可能是超现实的。

holy crap fake this fake commenter keeps doubling down pic.twitter.com/KyKDxbfnEp

— Justin Pot (@jhpot) September 22, 2016

设置这些网站的人通过添加一堆照片、与其他假网站建立友谊、发布一系列普通内容所经历的时间之长令人惊讶，直到你发现其中有钱。

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根据我的经验，识别假账户最简单的方法是反向图像搜索，比如Google Images或TinEye。抓起个人资料图片，在网站上浏览，一般你会发现这是一张库存照片或是从旧博客上刮下来的东西。当你发现一个假帐户，就去阻止他们。